Today, I decided (read: forced) to do a general cleanup on my room. Technically the cleanup was only limited to my upper cabinets – where all my boxes are stashed. The boxes of the new computer stuff I got were lying around the sala as my cabinets have reached critical mass. Mom thought it would be good for me to re-organize and re-evaluate which stuff have to stay and go.

We also had some cabinets mounted on the maids’ quarters for extra storage space of some sort. I asked when we were going to do the same for my room so I can store those boxes I need access to, but don’t access often (e.g. computer products)

In any case, everything seems to be in order, I was able to get rid of a considerable amount of junk I’ve collected over the past few years – so at least now, I have space to work with.

Change of subject

I also got a new hard disk, a 120GB SATA¹ drive. The back-story there was BP bought a hard drive for the LYPBH² album for the sound engineer to work with, but obviously the drive bays of the studio were non-SATA. It’s beyond me that they hadn’t had it replaced within 3 days (store policies usually have that)… suffice to say that all this was last year – so it was too late.

Upon upgrading my computer, I realized I could use more space… if I was able to get a decent priced drive that is. I was eyeing another 200GB or larger, but that SATA drive popped into my mind (I could just replace my 80GB system disk to the SATA). The warranty had already been eaten up, so it would be reasonable to get it at a considerably lower price.

Sure enough, I asked and it was still available. I figured that it would be wise of them to just sell it to me cheap so they could dispose of it instead of letting it rot (which is exactly what was happening) or wait for the studio to upgrade their interfaces (which is next to never).

To make a long story short, it was a mutually beneficial transaction, they got rid of the drive with renumeration, and I get an extra hard disk.

My room’s still a mess though.